Instagram’s take on BeReal is called “Candid.” | Image: Instagram Instagram is announcing a suite of new features that could be big focuses for the company in 2023, including a BeReal clone called Candid Stories, the ability to post very short text “Notes,” and groups. Candid Stories appear to mirror much of what has made
Read MoreHydrogen has long been touted as a potential fuel of the future. While it’s failed to catch on in cars as batteries have taken a strong lead, it still holds great promise for larger vehicles like trucks. Hyundai have been working diligently in this space over the last few years, with its Xcient line of
Read MoreLogitech’s Combo Touch keyboard case and USB-C Crayon stylus for the 10th Gen Apple iPad. Apple’s 10th-gen iPad is a bit of an enigma, a mix of newer design and technology with older features and limitations. Nowhere is this more apparent than with the accessory situation, where the 10th-gen iPad uses Apple’s older Pencil instead
Read MoreImage: Netflix Netflix is getting a little experimental in the new year. The streaming service will be releasing its latest crime anthology, Kaleidoscope, on January 1st — and the latest trailer shows off just how intense of a heist it really is, with a few billion dollars on the line. While Netflix has no shortage
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple’s latest iOS 16.2 update is now rolling out and includes a number of new and improved features for iPhone users. iPhone 14 Pro owners will benefit from improved always-on display settings, which let users turn off the mode’s wallpaper and notifications if they’re distracting. Other new
Read MoreMelissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: A reporter tries Lensa, but unlike her male peers whose avatars were astronauts, warriors, and the like, many of hers were “pornified”, with 16 of 100 topless — My avatars were cartoonishly pornified, while my male colleagues got to be astronauts, explorers, and inventors.
Read MoreApple’s iOS 16.2 update has plenty of new features and tweaks to test out including a whole new karaoke option.
Read MoreIvan Mehta / TechCrunch: iOS 16.2 arrives with improved encryption for iCloud data, Freeform app, AirDrop limitations, Apple Sing, a karaoke-like feature for Apple Music, and more — Apple is rolling out its iOS 16.2 update for all users today along with iPadOS 16.2 and macOS Ventura 13.1.
Read MoreIt looks like Intel won’t be competing head-to-head with the RTX 4090 and Radeon RX 7900 XTX anytime soon. In an interview about the company’s plans for Arc GPUs in India, its graphics chief dished on how it sees the market as a whole. In the interview, Raja Koduri, who famously left AMD to head
Read MoreApple has released iPadOS 16.2, adding a number of new features to the iPad including the Freeform app, improvements to Stage Manager, and a lot more.
Read MoreMobile applications are on the rise, all thanks to the increasing demand for the best application that can act as the virtual representative and represent the business in the best manner. Since using the mobile app is much easier and more convenient for users, many businesses are looking forward to launching an application of their
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority A leaked image of the Oppo Find X6 has appeared online. The unofficial render reveals a reworked design. It appears the phone could get a periscope lens. With its ceramic back that transitions smoothly to its camera bump, the Oppo Find X5 and Find X5 Pro both looked great.
Read MoreForbes: Everyone SBF Planned To Blame In Front Of Congress Today — Before He Was Arrested — Before he was arrested Monday in the Bahamas, disgraced FTX founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was planning to testify before Congress on Tuesday about the dramatic collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange.
Read MoreE-Commerce is the way of the future and has become a billion-dollar industry. But for most entrepreneurs, it’s an overwhelming task. Outsourcing your e-commerce business could help alleviate your burden, giving you more time to focus on what matters: making a profit. In this article, read about the many benefits of e-commerce outsourcing and how
Read MoreThese solar-charging buds break new ground and promise endless playtime. But would you want to listen to them forever?
Read MoreAndy Greenberg / Wired: Forensic analysis: hackers planted files on at least three Indian activists and likely colluded with police, yet 11 of 16 activists in related case still jailed — And new evidence suggests those hackers may have collaborated with the police who investigated him.
Read MoreUS nuclear scientists have achieved the long-sought goal of a fusion ignition—but don’t expect this clean technology to power the grid yet.
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Ngrok, which helps devs deploy sites, services, and apps, raised a $50M Series A led by Lightspeed, says ~5M devs use the service and ~30K are paying customers — Ask Alan Shreve why he founded Ngrok, a service that helps developers share sites and apps running on their local machines or
Read MoreDo you play Whamageddon? It’s a pastime for the month of December, something like the Game, in which you lose when you are exposed to the 1984 Wham! Christmas classic, Last Christmas. Such is the pervasive nature of Christmas music at this time of year, it’s extremely difficult not to encounter a bit of unexpected
Read MoreCordilia James / Wall Street Journal: Instagram rolls out Notes, a friend-focused status updates feature that appear atop the inbox, and begins testing BeReal-like Candid Stories in South Africa — With fresh ways to connect with friends, is Instagram trying to be Instagram again? — Polished is out and authentic …
Read MoreEmma Roth / The Verge: DoNotPay announces an AI-powered chatbot that can renegotiate bills and cancel subscriptions by chatting to customer service, rolling out in the coming weeks — DoNotPay, the company that bills itself as “the world’s first robot lawyer,” is launching a new AI-powered chatbot that can help …
Read MoreWall Street Journal: The EU publishes a draft approval of its preliminary US data sharing deal, struck in March to ease business sharing, after the US promised surveillance changes — Brussels gives tentative approval as part of pending deal to allow companies to transfer European data across the Atlantic
Read MoreJake Sully and his daughter Kiri floating in the ocean. | Image: Disney James Cameron’s second Avatar movie is a visually stunning but narratively uninspired return to Pandora that drowns some of its best ideas in military morass. Continue reading…
Read MoreStephanie Murray / The Block: John Ray III tells the House that FTX has a “paperless bankruptcy” due to an “unprecedented” lack of documentation, FTX and Alameda were not distinct, and more — – New FTX CEO John Ray III said top executives at FTX had “free rein” over the company’s many entities.
Read MoreThe west gate entrance to the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, US, on Monday, December 12th, 2022. | Photo by David Paul Morris / Bloomberg via Getty Images For the first time, researchers have created a fusion reaction that resulted in a net energy gain. The results, from the
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